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Author Stremlau, Rose

Title Sustaining the Cherokee family : kinship and the allotment of an Indigenous Nation / Rose Stremlau
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations, map
Series First peoples : new directions in Indigenous studies
First peoples (2010)
Contents Arriving -- Belonging -- Debating -- Enrolling -- Dividing -- Transforming -- Adapting -- Sustaining
Summary During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family, Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, particularly within individual families and communities in modern-day northeastern Oklahoma. Emphasizing Cherokee agency, Stremlau reveals that Cherokee families' organization, cultural values, and social and economic practices allowed them to adapt to private land ownership by incorporating elements of the new system into existing domestic and community-based economies. Drawing on evidence from a range of sources, including Cherokee and United States censuses, federal and tribal records, local newspapers, maps, county probate records, family histories, and contemporary oral histories, Stremlau demonstrates that Cherokee management of land perpetuated the values and behaviors associated with their sense of kinship, therefore uniting extended families. And, although the loss of access to land and communal resources slowly impoverished the region, it reinforced the Cherokees' interdependence. Stremlau argues that the persistence of extended family bonds allowed Indigenous communities to retain a collective focus and resist aspects of federal assimilation policy during a period of great social upheaval
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure.
Cherokee Indians -- Cultural assimilation
Cherokee Indians -- Kinship
Allotment of land -- Government policy -- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Cherokee Indians -- Cultural assimilation
Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure
Race relations
Social conditions
Social policy
SUBJECT Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma -- History
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma -- Social conditions
United States -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140547
United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011008427
ISBN 9780807869109
0807869104
9781469602745
1469602741